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Might it be because threads like these often cause toxic, rude, unproductive, and generally tribal discourse in the comments? Looking around the comment thread
by zbentley 6y ago
Might it be because threads like these often cause toxic, rude, unproductive, and generally tribal discourse in the comments?
Looking around the comment threads, I certainly don't see a lot of intellectual curiosity being stimulated or minds being expanded. I see a lot of dogmatic accusations, hyperbolic bemoaning-the-downfall-of-civilization, and general "how could you possibly believe that?!"-toned rudeness. Not our finest hour.
- non-entity 6y agoYeah pretty much all of HN's lines about how it's much better than other communities go out the window. Perhaps such conversations can be had productively, but I've yet to see it.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoI challenge you to find an on-line community whose average is better than HN's worst. I really do. I might start visiting it; we lack civilized places on the Internet.
- searchableguy 6y agoDo you have show dead on or ever check the bottom page/new posts?
- TeMPOraL 6y agoI do, and the kind of stuff that I see greyed out at the bottom is usually something I see floating around the middle of the page in other popular communities.